Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.

The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important.

Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

May God remind us daily-no matter what kind of obstacles we face-that we are loved and empowered by the One who brought the universe into existence with the mere sound of His voice. Nothing is impossible for Him.

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.

The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.

And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.